From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 13:45:29 MDT
Robin Hanson wrote:
>
> Mark Walker wrote:
> > I am not sure from your summary, but I take it that perhaps the most
> >plausible development of your hypothesis is that supernatural beliefs are a
> >credible signal of intragroup cooperativeness as opposed to intergroup
> >cooperativeness.
>
> Yes. Almost no one looks for evolutionary signals of intragroup
> cooperativeness because they don't expect to find any.
Huh? Virtually everything I have ever read on evolutionary psychology
touches on intragroup cooperativeness at one point or another. Hasn't
everyone been on the lookout since Axelrod and Hamilton in 1981?
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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